Batoul is a Saudi designer and storyteller based in London, United Kingdom. Her work explores personal, collective, and embodied memory through narrative-driven practices. Growing up in Al-Hijaz, her primary stimulus lies in her cultural identity and the environment that shaped her.
Batoul’s work explores the links between memory and place, creating a dialogue between the personal meaning and historical significance embedded in a site. She is interested in the ephemeral states of being that exist in the in-between; literal and metaphorical liminal spaces.
Batoul’s approach to inquiry is often auto-ethnographic, stemming from personal experience and expanding to collective memory. Her process begins with observation, documentation, and the archiving of oral history, often specific to a site or a community.
Using printmaking, writing, collage, and moving image, she gives form to her collection of stories and observations. She translates these narratives through installations, publications, and film. Telling stories that speak to a community is her purpose; stories that speak to the everyday, the culturally specific, and the spaces that exist in between.